Romans 3:13 ““Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The v…”

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

World English Bible

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

American Standard Version

Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

Geneva Bible 1599

Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

Darby Translation

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison [is] under their lips:

Young's Literal Translation

A sepulchre opened [is] their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps [is] under their lips.

Bible in Basic English

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

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Cross references

“throat”

Psalm 5:9 Jeremiah 5:16 Matthew 23:27 Matthew 23:28

Psalm 5:9 · BSB

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

Jeremiah 5:16 · BSB

Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.

Matthew 23:27 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Matthew 23:28 · BSB

In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

“with their”

Psalm 57:4 Jeremiah 9:3–5 Psalm 52:2 Isaiah 59:3 Ezekiel 13:7 James 3:5–8

Psalm 57:4 · BSB

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Jeremiah 9:3–5 · BSB

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Psalm 52:2 · BSB

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Isaiah 59:3 · BSB

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Ezekiel 13:7 · BSB

Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ even though I have not spoken?

James 3:5–8 · BSB

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.

“the poison”

Psalm 140:3 Deuteronomy 32:33 Job 20:14–16

Psalm 140:3 · BSB

They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Deuteronomy 32:33 · BSB

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Job 20:14–16 · BSB

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

Read Romans 3